“He knows religion is bollocks," Collingswood said. "He just wishes he didn't.” — China Miéville Religion Copy Share Image
“The light was going: some cloud cover arriving, as if summoned by drama.” — China Miéville Light Copy Share Image
...where's the skill in being a hero if you were always destined to do it? — China Mieville Being a hero Copy Share Image
“He walked with equipoise, possibly in either city. Schrödinger’s pedestrian.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“It ain't that he's not interested in, like, persuasiveness, get me? He's interested in it. Like something in a jar.” — China Miéville Persuasion Copy Share Image
My sustenance is information. My interventions are hidden. I increase as I learn. I compute, so I am. — China Mieville Copy Share Image
I differ with myself then agree, like the rock that was broken and cemented together. I change my opinion. — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“For the Right, strikes are both devilish and pathetic, have both terrible and absolutely no effects.” — China Miéville Politics Copy Share Image
“Fortune-telling was quantum betting, a competitive scrying of variably likely outcomes.” — China Miéville Betting Copy Share Image
“A promise fulfilled may be a classic moment, but prophecies mean anticlimax. How much more awesome was an unexpected salvation?” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
A sense of wrongness, of fraught unease, as if long nails scraped the surface of the moon, raising the hackles of the… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“Walls and ceilings moved with ratcheting mechanical life like the offspring of chains and crabs.” — China Miéville Life Copy Share Image
My parents went through the dictionary looking for a beautiful name, nearly called me Banyan, flicked on a few pages and came… — China Mieville Beautiful Copy Share Image
Well I don't feel sectarian against sparseness, although I sometimes get a little chippy about this. I resent the way that a… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
The Weaver is a really godlike power. It's not even a blind idiot god, a sort of Lovecraft thing, it's just a… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
A lot of geeks are pale, bespectacled, wear dark clothing and don't get out much - the stereotype exists because it is… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“In August 1914, the name of St Petersburg itself is changed to the more Slavonic Petrograd: in semiotic rebellion against this idiocy,… — China Miéville Bolsheviks Copy Share Image
The reason that I like SF and fantasy and horror is that to me it's the pulp wing of surrealism. That's the… — China Mieville Aesthetic Copy Share Image
“Interstiality is a theme that is simultaneously genuinely interesting and potentially quite useful, and also a terrible cliché, so if you're going… — China Miéville Nature Copy Share Image
“ Gods it's well done , she thought, bowing her head, acknowledging consummate work. She felt skeins of cause, effect, effort, and… — China Miéville Coming together Copy Share Image
When I write my novels, I'm not writing them to make political points. I'm writing them because I passionately love monsters and… — China Mieville Books Copy Share Image
“Dane discarded his speargun with visible relief. As a paladin of the Church of God Kraken, he had few options. Like many… — China Miéville Guns Copy Share Image
“My job is never boring," Staples said. "There's nuts-and-bolts stuff like getting the tarpaulin over the shaft when it rains, and so… — China Miéville Book Copy Share Image
My parents were hippies, and the story is that they went through a dictionary looking for a beautiful word to name me.… — China Mieville Beautiful Copy Share Image
“The boy went to the low-down part of the attic where he drew, and drew a lizard in a bottle between the… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“The revolution of 1917 is a revolution of trains. History proceeding in screams of cold metal. The tsar’s wheeled palace, shunted into… — China Miéville Civil war Copy Share Image
“She was Remade she was (Remade scum), he knew it, he saw it, and still he felt incessantly what was inside him,… — China Miéville Habits Copy Share Image
“They live beyond the quick ghetto. In hovels. In the shantytown.' He smiled. 'And every night, after the sun's descended, they can… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“utterly human moan started from him, and it grew and grew until it became a bird” — China Miéville Bird Copy Share Image
“I don't want to be a simile anymore,' I said. "I want to be a metaphor.” — China Miéville Metaphor Copy Share Image
Socialism and SF are the two most fundamental influences in my life. — China Mieville Copy Share Image
I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book. — China Mieville Book Copy Share Image
“At dawn a great shark mouth appears at the horizon smiling like a stupid angel and chewing silently on the sky.” — China Miéville Fish Copy Share Image
'Kraken' is set in London and has a lot of London riffs, but I think it's more like slightly dreamlike, slightly abstract… — China Mieville Abstract Copy Share Image
“I wish that there was nothing to hold me here, that gravity was a suggestion I could ignore.” — China Miéville Gravity Copy Share Image
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